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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #171 - OK, This Is Epic (w/ Alex Ross)

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/41754206 Hellooooo we're the nostalgia critics and we remembered KICKASSIA (2010) so you don't have to. A decade ago, the head honchos of an online content mill called Channel Awesome brought all their contributors together for a feature-length movie... but only later was it revealed that the production was plagued by mismanagement and abuse. We drove ourselves mad watching a "movie" comprised entirely of inside jokes from videos that were online 10 years ago. PLUS: we consider Pepe the Frog.

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0:00.0

I suggest an attack.

0:01.8

A full frontal assault by all of us.

0:03.8

Sometimes the best way to deal with a madman.

0:06.5

So to interrupt, can I just ask what the hell you guys made me watch?

0:13.0

What did I just watch?

0:14.2

So basically, just to give like a short summary, back in 2008, Doug Walker created this character called the nostalgia critic to

0:23.7

basically review you know silly cartoons and movies that he'd watched as a child and uh I wouldn't

0:30.5

really call them reviews it's almost like summaries with jokes and little skits and things like that

0:36.2

a lot of clips too a lot of clips right it got in trouble for that overits and things like that. A lot of clips too. A lot of clips, right. He got in trouble

0:39.7

for that over copyright and things like that. But yeah, a lot of clips. Basically, you know, this

0:44.8

proved so popular on early YouTube that he was able to build like his own little network that was

0:51.1

originally called That Guy With the Glasses.com and then later became Channel Awesome.

0:56.0

And part of what had happened was that YouTube, after it was bought by Google, you know, was really trying to clamp down on copyright.

1:03.0

So he moved his content to a web posting service called blip.t.

1:08.0

And built this website, that guy with guy of the glasses.com where he could

1:12.1

sort of get away with playing clips and doing his usual kind of humor. Because he would use a lot

1:16.4

of clips from these movies. He would he would have you know maybe a 30 or 40 minute review of jungle

1:22.8

to jungle or the Santa Claus or some old piece of shit like that.

1:27.8

Yeah, yeah.

1:28.7

And like that would be two-thirds clip.

1:30.9

And he would reveal the whole movie, basically.

1:33.4

And he would do criticism that was like the lowest hanging for.

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